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POLK'S ASTORIA (OREGON)
CITY DIRECTORY
VOL. 1940 XVI
Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens of the Cities of
ASTORIA, SEASIDE, WARRENTON and WESTPORT i
A Directory of Householders, Tenants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places and Street and Avenue Guide of Astoria. Rural Mail Routes for the Towns of Astoria, Seaside and Warrenton.
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GENERAL INDEX
Abbreviations 12
Astoria Alphabetical List of Names 13
Astoria City Officials 20
Astoria Householders' Guide. 185
Buyers' Guide opposite 304
Classified Business Directory 305
Clatsop County Rural Routes 361
Seaside Alphabetical List of Names 229
Warrenton Alphabetical List of Names. 277
Westport Alphabetical List of Names.
295
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
ASTORIA
Page Numbers Below Refer to The Buyers' Guide Section
Astoria Abstract Co. bottom edge and 2
Astoria Business College right side lines
Astoria Chamber of Commerce
3
Astoria Florists right top lines and 14
Astoria Foundry 15
Astoria Mattress & Upholstery Co right side lines and 22
Astoria Office Appliance Co. left top lines and 24
Astorian-Budget Publishing Co.
23
Brookfield Co. front cover and 8
Burner Oil Sales Corp. back cover and 15
City Lumber & Supply Co front cover and 8
Clatsop Title Co
left side lines
Columbia Hospital.
front cover and 17
Columbia Oil Co.
front cover and 11
Commercial Adjustment Co
9
Eastern Outfitting Co.
left side lines
Erickson Floral Co.
back cover and 22
Finnish Market & Grocery
backbone and 6 First National Bank.
left side lines
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Fisher Bros Co. left top lines and 16
Ginn's Funeral Home right side lines and 15
Hacker H T Co Inc. right side lines
Hughes E B Mortuary.
left top lines
Johnson Motor Co.
back cover and 4
Lovell Auto Co back cover and 4
Lower Columbia Co-Operative Dairy Assn top edge and 13
Lower Columbia Rating Bureau.
front cover and 10
Makela Construction Co. left top lines and 12
Merwyn Hotel right top lines and 19
Noonan E P & Co. left side lines
Northwest Cities Gas Co
left side lines and 16
Northwestern Ice & Cold Storage Co left side lines
Nyquist Motor Co 5
Owen Feed Co
back cover and 14
Owen-Peeke Co.
left top lines and 13
Pacific Machine & Blacksmith Co back cover and 7
Pacific Power & Light Co left top lines and 13
Portway Machine Works front cover and 21
Puusti A & Co left side lines
Reith Floyd H right top lines and 20
Saario S T
right top lines
StMary's Hospital
18
Shaner & Co.
right side lines
Siddall Hotel
19
Sunflower Dairy
left side lines
Tidepoint Co.
right top lines and 12 Union Fishermen's Co-Operative Packing Co .... right side lines United Motors.
.right top lines and 5
West Bond Market.
front cover
Wilson Studio The right side lines and 23
SEASIDE
Seaside Publishing Co
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INTRODUCTION
R. L. POLK & CO., publishers of the Astoria City and Clatsop County Directory, as well as more than 700 other city, county, state and national directories, present to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1940 edition of the Astoria and Clatsop County Directory.
Confidence in the growth of Astoria and Clatsop County's industry, population and wealth, and in the advancement of its civic and social activities, will be created as sections of this directory are consulted, for the directory is a mirror truly reflecting the community to the world.
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Population
The estimated population of the city of Astoria is 11,000, based on the number of individual names in the alphabetical section of the directory, with due allowance for children and for women whose names are not listed separately from those of their husbands. Territory immediately adjacent, which is part of the city, as far as business and social life are concerned, is included in the directory.
Five Major Departments
The several essential departments are arranged in the following order:
THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents, business firms and corporations for Astoria is included in pages 13 to 183. In pages 229 to 303 appears a directory of Seaside, Warrenton and Westport, arranged alphabetically by towns. This is the only record in existence that aims to show the name, marital status, occupation and address of each adult resident of Astoria, Seaside, Warrenton and Westport, and the name, official personnel, nature and address of each firm and cor- poration in these cities.
THE ASTORIA DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHLODERS, TENNANTS OF OFFICE BUILDINGS, AND OTHER BUSINESS PLACES AND STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE, pages 185 to 227.
THE BUYERS' GUIDE, beginning opposite page 304 and separately paged from 1 to 24, printed on tinted paper, contains the advertisements of leading manufacturing, business and professional interests of Astoria and Clatsop County. These pages will be found particularly interesting and instructive to substantial purchasing factors. The advertisements have been carefully grouped by departments and are indexed under head- ings descriptive of the business represented. This is reference advertis-
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ing at its best, and, as such, merits a survey of all buyers eager to familiarize themselves with sources of supply. The community's activities in many interesting phases are authentically pictured. In an ambitious and progressive community like Clatsop County, the necessity of having this kind of information immediately available, is very great, and fre- quently pressing. General appreciation of this fact is evidenced by the liberal support the city directory enjoys in the many fields which it serves.
THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is included in pages 305 to 359. This department lists the various manufacturing mercantile and professional interests in alphabetical order under appropriate head- ings. This feature constitutes an invaluable and indispensable epitome of the business interests of the community. "The Directory is the common intermediary between Buyer and Seller." As such it plays no small part in the daily doings of the business world. "More goods are bought and sold through the Classified Business Directory than through any other medium."
THE CLATSOP COUNTY RURAL ROUTES DIRECTORY, covering the routes served by the Astoria, Seaside and Warrenton post offices, is included in pages 361 to 368.
Community Publicity
The directory reflacts the achievements and ambitions of the com- munity, depicting in truthful terms what it has to offer as a place of residence, as a business location, as an industrial site and as an educa- tional center. To broadcast this information the publishers have placed copies of this issue of the directory in Directory Libraries, where they are readily available for free public reference, and serve as perpetual and reliable advertisements of Astoria and Clatsop County, for business men, everywhere, realize that the city directory represents a community as it really is.
The Astoria Directory Library
Through the courtesy of the publishers of the Clatsop County Direc- tory a Directory Library is maintained in the offices of Astoria Chamber of Commerce, 245 14th, for free reference by the general public. This is one of more than 450 Directory Libraries installed in the chief cities of the U. S. and Canada by members of the Association of North American Directory Publishers, under whose supervision the system is operated.
The publishers appreciatively acknowledge the recognition by those progressive business and professional men who have demonstrated their confidence in the city directory as an advertising medium, with assurance that it will bring a commensurate return.
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City of Astoria
Gateway of the Pacific to the Columbia Empire and the
"Home of the Royal Chinook Salmon" Copyright, 1940, by R. L. Polk & Co.
STATISTICAL REVIEW Prepared by the Astoria Chamber of Commerce
Form of Government-City Manager.
Population-Present Government estimate: 11,000.
Area-6.557 square miles.
Altitude-15 feet.
Climate-Mean annual temperature : 51.9 degrees. Annual rain- fall : 76.57 inches.
Parks- 3 with 140 acres, valued at $175,000.
Assessed Valuation-$5,397,775, with $2.62 per $100 tax rate.
City's Bonded Debt-$2,867,850.
Financial-2 banks.
Post Office Receipts-$71,173.06 for year 1939.
Telephones in Service-3049.
Churches-20, representing 11 denominations.
Building and Construction-320 permits issued in 1939 with total value of $296,961.
Industry-(1937 figures for Clatsop County Industries) 82 estab- lishments, 3,046 employees; $4,123,055 payroll; Value of Products, $21,401,418.)
Trade-Retail territory has a radius of 30 miles and serves 30,000 people.
Newspapers-1 daily, 1 weekly and 1 semi-weekly.
Hotels-8 principal with a total of 425 rooms.
Bus Lines-2, Oregon Motor Stages and Spokane, Portland & Seattle Ry. Co. stages.
Railroads-1: Spokane, Portland & Seattle Ry. Co. Highways-Terminus of US No. 30, US No. 101, State No. 202. Airports-1, municipal.
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Amusements-2 theatres, with total seating capacity of 2,337. Largest auditorium seats 1,112 persons. 3 golf courses.
Hospitals-2, with 217 beds.
Education-5 schools, including 1 senior high and 1 parochial. Number of pupils in public schools, 1,671: Parochial: 118; Teachers in public schools: 71; Value of School Property (Public only) $589,194.
City Statistics-30 miles paved streets. Miles of sewers, 47.6; 2,730 water meters; 915 gas meters; 4,600 light meters; Ca- pacity of water works, (municipal) 6,000,000 gallons daily with daily average pump of 2,000,000 gallons; 42.8 miles of mains and plant valued at $1,009,009.85. Fire department em- ploys 14 men, with 1 auto, 1 triple combination machine, three hose and chemical wagons and 1 hook and ladder truck in 3 station houses. Value of fire department real estate and equipment, $125,000. Police department has 12 men with 1 station and 2 pieces of motor equipment. Value of police department real estate and equipment, $25,000.
HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE
Astoria and Clatsop County are rich in historic interest and importance. Early events occurring here had far reaching ef- fects, eventually resulting in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest becoming a part of the United States instead of the possession of a foreign power.
Urged on by the desire to find a fabled "Northwest Passage" by water across the North American continent, Spanish and British explorers had sailed along the Oregon and Washington coastline, but the Columbia River was not discovered until 1792, when Captain Robert Gray of Boston entered the river and named it after his ship, the "Columbia."
In 1804, President Jefferson appointed Captains Meriweather Lewis and William Clark to head an expedition across the west- ern plains and mountains to the Pacific Ocean. Lewis and Clark explored the Lower Columbia region and spent the winter of 1805-1806 at Fort Clatsop, near Astoria.
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